Life After the B.O.E.: March11, 2011
Life After the B.O.E. is a comic series about the JET experience by David Namisato (Aomori-ken, 2002-2004), a professional illustrator currently living in Toronto. Visit David’s website at www.namisato.org.
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Life After the B.O.E.: Ingredients
Life After the B.O.E. is a comic series about the JET experience by David Namisato (Aomori-ken, 2002-2004), a professional illustrator currently living in Toronto. Visit David’s website at www.namisato.org.
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JETs in the News: Lars Martinson featured in Japan Times article on ex-pat comics
******** JET alum/cartoonist Lars Martinson (Fukuoka-ken 2003-2006), author of the graphic novels Tonoharu: Part Two and Tonoharu: Part 1, is the focus (along with Adam Pasion, author of the Sundogs anthologies) of a thoughtful Japan Times article by Gianni Simone on comics about Japan “that tell it like it is.” Here’s the link to the…
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Life After the B.O.E.: Blending In
Life After the B.O.E. is a comic series about the JET experience by David Namisato (Aomori-ken, 2002-2004), a professional illustrator currently living in Toronto. Visit David’s website at www.namisato.org.
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JET alum/cartoonist Lars Martinson gives radio interview
Check out this great radio interview with JET alum/cartoonist Lars Martinson (Fukuoka-ken 2003-2006), creator of the four-part graphic novel Tonoharu. Lars talked with radio station KFAI out Minnesota in December. Hear him talk about the creation of his book, which tells the tale of an ALT wrestling with the challenges of living in rural Japan…
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Life After the B.O.E.: Better Christmas
Life After the B.O.E. is a comic series about the JET experience by David Namisato (Aomori-ken, 2002-2004), a professional illustrator currently living in Toronto. Visit David’s website at www.namisato.org.
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Justin’s Japan: Interview with ‘Tonoharu’ Cartoonist/JET Alum Lars Martinson
JET alum and ‘Tonoharu’ creator Lars Martinson. (Illustration by Lars Martinson) By JQ magazine’s Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his NY Japanese Culture page here to subscribe for free alerts on newly published stories. Minnesota-based cartoonist Lars Martinson went to Japan in 2003 to teach English on the JET Program, an exchange initiative sponsored by the Japanese…
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Lars Martinson interviewed in Hero Magazine re “Tonoharu: Part 2”
There’s a nice interview with JET alum Lars Martinson in Hero Magazine. Lars recently published Tonoharu: Part 2, a graphic novel about teaching English in Japan that follows up on the success of Tonoharu: Part 1. Here’s the link to the article: http://heromagazine.org/?p=189
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Life After the B.O.E.: Autograph
Life After the B.O.E. is a comic series about the JET experience by David Namisato (Aomori-ken, 2002-2004), a professional illustrator currently living in Toronto. Visit David’s website at www.namisato.org.
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Lars Martinson’s “Tonoharu: Part Two” reviewed by BoingBoing
JET alum Lars Martinson recently released his follow-up graphic novel Tonoharu: Part 2. Here’s the review by Mark Frauenfelde of BoingBoing: “Tonoharu Part Two: Excellent graphic novel about an English teacher in Japan”: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/10/tonoharu-part-two-ex.html (Editor’s note: I have a copy of Tonoharu: Part 1, and every time I show it to a fellow JET alum…
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Instant Noodle Comics: I Wish Facebook had The Boss Filter
Instant Noodle Comics is a new cartoon by Shun Endo (Ibaraki Prefecture, 1998-2001), who also served as Treasurer and Webmaster for JETAA Pacific Northwest. He works as a Game Artist at Real Networks( Gamehouse Studios). To see more of his cartoons go to instantnoodlescomics.com. Click the image to see the full comic!
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Life After the B.O.E.: Inappropriate Touching
Life After the B.O.E. is a comic series about the JET experience by David Namisato (Aomori-ken, 2002-2004), a professional illustrator currently living in Toronto. Visit David’s website at www.namisato.org.
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Second Volume of JET-inspired Graphic Novel Now Available
JET alum/cartoonist Lars Martinson (Fukuoka-ken 2003-2006) has this to share: “I just got copies of my second graphic novel Tonoharu: Part Two back from the bindery. The book won’t be available in stores until next month, but I’m selling them on my website right now if anyone’s interested.” A link to order the book, as well as information…
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Life After the B.O.E.: Chopsticks
Life After the B.O.E. is a comic series about the JET experience by David Namisato (Aomori-ken, 2002-2004), a professional illustrator currently living in Toronto. Visit David’s website at www.namisato.org.
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Books: Lars Martison’s “Tonoharu” gets favorable write-up on BoingBoing, makes Amazon’s Top Ten Bestselling Graphic Novels list
There’s a nice review of JET alum Lars Martinson’s graphic novel Tonoharu: Part 1 on the BoingBoing site written by Mark Frauenfelder titled “Tonoharu: Excellent graphic novel about an English teacher in Japan.” And according to Lars’ blog, “Thanks to Mark Frauenfelder’s writeup about Tonoharu: Part One on Boing Boing, the book has made it…